Hey,
So for my interactive drawing, I chose to create a season changing animation following a leaf through each scene. I was going for a very zen/peaceful experience from the viewer. I believe I succeeded in making this effect. The animation itself was fairly easy to create. I hand drew the leaf in flash then exported it as a png sequence. This came out of the process with the wrong format and numbering sequence, so I brought it into photoshop where I rendered the video with the proper settings. I then painted over a forest scene to create one basic background of just trees to keep that a constant in the animation. I made 3 layers of it and painted each season. I imported those pictures into flash again and made them move with tween frames and did the same process I did for the leaf to create the image sequence. I struggled with the pd patch a little to get it to do what I wanted. The logic was in place some times but didn’t do what the code said which was weird. This is the end patch:
Your PD patch looks like a snowflake! Thought that was cool! I really like the attention to detail you took while making each season. The only thing i could recommend for an improvement would be to fade in between seasons rather than cut. Very Enjoyable!
I really enjoyed your animation. You can see that you spent a lot of time on this and you portrayed every season perfectly. Personally my favorite animation is for summer because you you were able to get the sun beams in between the trees and it really captured the escense of the season. This project is very pleasing to multiple senses, if only we could smell the different scents of the seasons. 🙂
On another note, as a piece of constructive critisism, I would have like to have seen your drawing a bit more detailed. You spent a lot of time on the animation but the hand drawing looks a little messy. It isn’t anything drastic, your finished project is still great!
The leaf floating through the air really feels as though it has life to it, and the actual loops of the animations are perfect